The Australian Radio Yachting Association - The Sport with a Challenge!

The Australian Radio Yachting Association (Incorporated) (ARYA) is the National Authority for Radio Sailing in Australia and is a member of the International Radio Sailing Association. Formed in 1964, ARYA caters for the four International radio yacht classes and the RC Laser as a National class. Other classes such as the Soling 1 Metre, the EC12 and Micro Magic are recognised by some State affiliates, The Association, through its member bodies in each State and the ACT conducts all aspects of the sport including National and State Championships with club racing through a network of 60 clubs, Australia wide.

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The Australian Radio Yachting Association - The Sport with a Challenge!

The Australian Radio Yachting Association (Incorporated) (ARYA) is the National Authority for Radio Sailing in Australia and is a member of the International Radio Sailing Association. Formed in 1964, ARYA caters for the four International radio yacht classes and the RC Laser as a National class. Other classes such as the Soling 1 Metre, the EC12 and Micro Magic are recognised by some State affiliates, The Association, through its member bodies in each State and the ACT conducts all aspects of the sport including National and State Championships with club racing through a network of 60 clubs, Australia wide.

The contacts shown throughout the site will welcome your enquiries.

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The Australian Radio Yachting Association - The Sport with a Challenge!

The Australian Radio Yachting Association (Incorporated) (ARYA) is the National Authority for Radio Sailing in Australia and is a member of the International Radio Sailing Association. Formed in 1964, ARYA caters for the four International radio yacht classes and the RC Laser as a National class. Other classes such as the Soling 1 Metre, the EC12 and Micro Magic are recognised by some State affiliates, The Association, through its member bodies in each State and the ACT conducts all aspects of the sport including National and State Championships with club racing through a network of 60 clubs, Australia wide.

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The ARYA has announced that South Australia has been selected to host the 2020 A Class Australian Championship at West Lakes, Adelaide.

The ARYA received two bids to host the championship from both South Australia & Western Australia with ARYA Secretary, Ross Bennett, stating that "while the submissions were widely different, it was difficult for the committee to choose the successful bid".

Each bid had many differing factors, however there can only be one winner, and on this occassion the South Australia bid has been successful.

Bennett said "We thank Western Australia for their submission, and congratulate South Australia on winning the right to host the regatta in 2020".

With the breeze ESE mixing it up between A & B rig it made it a tough for the nineteen skippers at the 2018 Kawana Open held on Saturday 8th December.

Greg "Torps" Torpy would have thought he had this one in the bag after a strong performance at the NSW State Championship in Koonwarra Bay, where he finished 3rd, but as the day progressed it was evident it was not to be.

While race wins were shared across a multitude of sailors it was the V10's that dominated the day with Glen Fitzgerald being most consistent coming out on top followed by Torps and then the V10's of Doug Allen and John Gower.

With a total of eight different race winners and the ever changing conditions it wasn't surprising that race winners came from as far back as fifteenth and sixteenth where Nick Lindsley picked up two wins!

An outstanding performance at the Tasmanian Marblehead State Championship saw Ray Joyce win twenty out of the twenty seven races sailed.

The event hosted by the Risdon Brook Radio Yacht Club over the weekend of 8 & 9 December saw a small fleet of eight boats contend for the state championship title.

Joyce with his Grunge, dominated proceedings rolling out four bullets in the first four races and no doubt left the others deliberating over what could be done to slow him down. Other than missing races five and six, Joyce continued his winning streak at one point stringing twelve races wins in a row and leaving the remainder of the fleet battling it out for second place.

Mike Hickman with his Ajax was next best managing to pick up a single solitary win but with strong placings in the other races, he safely cemented second position at the end of the championship finishing 41 points behind Joyce and twelve points ahead of closest rival, John Hall sailing a Fuzzy Logic, with Lisa Blackwood and Kyle Stewart close behind in fourth and fifth respectively.

The weekend of December 1 and 2 was the date for the WA IOM State Championship. The regatta was held this year in the lovely seaside town of Albany, which is a 4 and a half hour drive south of Perth. The locals were looking forward to welcoming the visitors and a great turn-out was evident.

15 visitors made the journey mostly on the Friday prior. The bakery in Mount Barker would have received a steady stream of radio sailors looking to sample the BEST pies you will ever find. Mine was a Scallop pie, which was magnificent! On Friday afternoon, you could find a few skippers sneaking down to the marina far a sneaky practice sail in conditions which would prove to be pretty standard for the whole weekend.

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QRYA President Dayle Smith

The ARYA is saddened to hear of the recent passing of past QRYA President Dayle Smith.

Dayle, with both his sailing and legal experience, was extremely supportive of the ARYA and was a volunteer on sub-committees, assisted with the redrafting of our constitution as well as providing advice on legal matters for which we are extremely thankful.

Our thoughts are with his family at this time of loss.

Marblehead’s back in WA

The Marblehead has been missing in WA for a long time but that appears to be changing. Three boats have found their way to new homes in WA, to the ARYA President & ARYA Secretary (Sean Wallis & Ross Bennett) with Glenn Dawson looking to pick up the third of the Brad Gibson designed Indie’s.

No doubt the interest in the class will see further growth in WA and it’s not surprising why.

Since the release of line plans for the Indie by BG in 2014, the option to self build a boat that is competitive against the production boats has seen the Marblehead fleet in Australia go from strength to strength providing sailors with extremely competitive racing, with the Indie sailed by Scott Condie winning the 2018 Australian Championship.

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2018 New Zealand IOM Championship

Six Aussie’s made the trip across ‘the ditch’ to Wattle Farm, Auckland, New Zealand for the 2018 NZL IOM Championship and based on previous advice the intrepid Aussie’s were expecting an awesome venue with quality breezes and great sailing. Come to Wattle Farm they said, it will be great they said! All encouraging news given in the past we sailed on a duck pond, a weed infested lake with no breeze and a piddly lake in chilly and wet Christchurch – surely they had to get it right this time!

In the days before the event the dreaded email came through advising that the host club was being challenged by a weed infestation but every effort was being made with tons of the stuff being hauled from the main lake on a daily basis and by the time we had a practice sail on the Thursday it would have appeared that their efforts were paying off however, by Friday the battle had been lost and the decision was to sail on the secondary lake (how lucky to have two of them).

The forecast weather conditions were favorable, temperatures around 20C, sunshine and light winds for the duration, at least the shorts and t-shirts got a chance to get out instead of the wet weather gear.

Aussies at the Ten Rater & Marblehead World’s

Germany was the host country for the 2018 Ten Rater & Marblehead World Championships held at Biblis from 24 May to 01 June.

Australia was represented by Kirwan Robb (VIC), Andrew Reid (VIC), David Turton (QLD) & David “Yoda” Thomas (VIC) in both classes with 53 competitors in the Ten Rater Class and 76 in the Marblehead.

Winds were predominantly light over the two championships which probably didn’t suit our team entirely but they still managed to pull of some great results.

In the Ten’s Andy kicked off the championship with some great top ten places and certainly had the potential for a top ten finish although struggled in the latter part of the championship finishing 14th overall. Kirwan also had a good start with a 6th & 4th in the first three races but ended up with a mixed bag finally finishing a creditable 10th overall. Our remaining Aussies, Turts & Yoda finished 23rd & 42nd respectively.

The M’s followed immediately after the Tens and it was Kirwan that opened his score card with a 2nd in the seeding race and with regular top ten finishes, ended up an astounding 4th overall with Andy 17th, Turts 37th and Yoda 52nd.

Overall our team should be proud of their performance, the time and effort to participate on the international stage is significant and on behalf of the ARYA I congratulate them all on their results and effort in representing Australia at the events.

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